Robert A. "Bob" Holmes
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Robert A. "Bob" Holmes is an American politician and Georgia legislator.
Until his retirement in 2005, he was Director of the Southern Center for Studies in Public Policy and Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Clark Atlanta University. Holmes graduated from the Shepherd College and received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University at the age of 25.
In 2008, Holmes was re-elected to his seventeenth term as a State Representative in the Georgia General Assembly, where he is a committee member of Appropriations and Rules and serves as Chairman of Education. He was the first African-American in the history of the General Assembly to serve on the Budget Subcommittee.
Part of Interstate 285 was named in his honor, from Interstate 85 in South Fulton County to Interstate 20.
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